Ultimately, Zverev added a comment: “Anyone who has a reasonably high IQ understands what it’s about.”
Curious: Zverev had already used the same words at the beginning of November to reject the allegations against himself. Even then, he didn’t go into any further detail, but left it to his listeners to think of their own part.
Zverev is expected to pay a significant fine for bodily harm, and the Tiergarten district court in Berlin imposed a fine of 450,000 euros on him.
The 26-year-old denies the allegations and has already lodged an objection against the penalty order.
The former world number 2 is accused of physically abusing a woman during an argument in Berlin in May 2020. The presumption of innocence applies until a final conviction is made.
Zverev’s lawyer Christian Schertz reacted in more detail after the penalty order was imposed. “Mr. Zverev rejects the accusation made against him,” it said in a statement: “The complainant’s allegations on which the penalty order is based have already been confirmed by a forensic medical report from the recognized Berlin forensic doctor Prof. Dr. Tsokos, Charité Berlin, refuted.”
Tsokos, director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Berlin University Hospital, had explained that there were “significant inconsistencies in the situation that are not comprehensible from a forensic medical point of view” and that it was “practically impossible that the facts occurred as claimed by the complainant.” .
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